The terrible kickoff by Ryan Quigley that led to Spiller's big return down to the BC 20 in the 4th quarter was definitely all Crane.
The defense's inability to contain Spiller on 3 (?) big plays, or the inability of the secondary to make a play on 3rd down during the first half? Totally Crane's fault.
It was also definitely Crane's fault that Robinson fumbled on a play in the first half when BC was finally moving the ball, or that Purvis had two terrible drops. And on and on.
While BC fans will most likely lash out at the one simple solution that they can easily grasp (OMG BENCH THE QUARTERBACK), the big problem today was the same god damn problem we've had for the last, what, four years? We have NO KICKING GAME. Our kickoff return team is abysmal. We hardly ever get positive punt returns. Our special teams made a few nice plays today, but they nonetheless cost us the game. Period.
The defense, still clearly missing Brian Toal, finally tightened up and played BC D in the second half, but not before getting torched on several big plays during the first. The O-Line also could have been a lot better - how many times was Crane flushed out of the pocket and forced to throw it away? (Credit needs to be also given to the Clemson secondary for keeping our receivers covered, but still, the O-Line could have stepped up.)
Is Crane a problem on this team right now? Definitely, he's one of them. He's simply not a very good D1 quarterback. But is he the biggest problem on the team? No... not even close.
And would Davis make a positive difference? Absolutely fucking not. Davis, for one, would not have been able to make that throw into the corner of the end zone for BC's third touchdown.
Crane isn't good, but attempting to pin this on him, or to think that we would have won either of the past two games, is extremely frigging short-sighted, and I'm hearing way too much of that from BC fans already. I think I'm going to ban myself from EagleAction for the next few days.
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Wow. I wish you were kidding. You must be watching different games from the rest of us.
All of the problems you cited are real.
But Chris Crane is by far, far and away, by miles and miles, the absolute biggest problem with this football team.
With the #100 best QB in FBS, we'd be leading the division and ranked in the top 25. With an above-average QB, we'd be knocking on the top 10. If we had Ryan for another year, we'd probably be in the national championship discussion. It's not that our team is that much better than last year; it's that our opponents are almost all worse. In some cases, much worse.
And yet Chris Crane consistently gives points to the other team and hampers our team's efforts to score points of its own. Today the Crane-led offense could not score at all unless it was handed a very short field by the defense. And when crunch time arrived and we needed a last-minute drive to save the day? Three short passes to the fullback, two in the middle of the field (with no time outs), and the third that pulled him out of bounds.
Moronic. Crane is the biggest problem with this team. And he's making apologists like you look more and more foolish with each passing week.
Look, I don't know how many ways I can say it. Crane sucks, but Davis sucks more. This isn't a situation where we can latch on to a simple solution, and voila, problem solved.
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